Actual reason Fisker is “switching” to this for their “first model” is to keep the scam going a while longer. Fisker has zero intentions of producing a car for sale, and the nine people working at his company could not produce the three new vehicles plus solid state batteries promised even if the cars ran on a…

Zero pounds. Vapor is extremely light. 

Sadly, the range on the Leaf is unlikely to remain anywhere near 226 for long, as they still do not have activate liquid battery temperature management. This will also mean recharging on a road trip will take a long time, even if you find a rare 100 kw chargers.

Sadly we won’t ever know if their FF-91 would have been well reviewed, or if it would have sold well despite lacking a fast charging network. But it seems clear from how fast they blew through the $800 million first installment that the next $1.2 billion would have been exceedingly unlikely to last through their…

Porsche is planning to reach 20,000 Taycan produced per year. That is not a high volume car, and they won't have batteries to make more if they want to. 

Uh, so the Taycan is basically the same size as the Model 3, has the exact same range and 0-60 as the Model 3 Performance, and is clearly targeting the far larger and faster Model S? I guess when they first showed the concept for the Taycan back in 2015 they might have thought so, but in the meantime Tesla has already…

And also because he did all the coding for his first company, lots of it for his second, taught himself rocket science and designed the first private rocket to ever reach low Earth orbit, and has played a major engineering role at the first American auto startup to survive infancy since the 1920's. Elon Musk turned a…

True, one can make all sorts of horrible compromises that reduce cargo and passenger space, increase drag, increase rollover odds, make handling around curves and corners crap, decrease crash safety...and look, the EQC! 

But Jaguar is doing it by having Magna Steyr build it. That is fine for a small company, but I doubt Magna Steyr could cope with Mercedes volumes. 

It is not laziness, it is a bad solution to a hard problem. The automakers don't know how rapidly EV demand will grow and making EVs on unique platforms means shutting down a production line and rebuilding it, and obviously if you are doing this with even five percent of your factories in a year that hurts. So, shared…

It will in fact be extraordinary how efficient the EQC is, I just wonder how Mercedes thinks they will make money selling 50-100 of these a month. 

They lost the space because this is a "shared platform" abomination, meaning the batteries are ON TOP of the frame instead of between the rails, and even stacked on top of each other in one place. Then every effort was made to use the same components for both their ICE using that platform and this car. Basically, this…

They will offer it at those prices, I expect very few will sell until they get to drastically cutting the price. 

Yes, it is the Excuses, Questions, and Compromises, the EQC. The customer will ask why the EQC has that awful center floor hump, why it feels so much smaller inside than other similar sized EVs, why the rollover safety rating is so low, why the handling kinda sucks compared to an I-Pace or Model Y or pretty much any…

Where does Jakopnik find writers who know nothing about cars? The Mercedes EQC, which clearly stands for Excuses, Questions and Compromises, will save them a lot of expenses converting their production line for EVs by being an EV no one wants to buy. Genius! Yes, so brilliant that Mercedes limited the cargo and…

It is fascinating how poorly the automakers understand their customers. They want to be safer, and right now that is beating their desire for smaller more nimble cars. But what they really want is super safe medium size cars, like the Model 3. Tesla goes all out to make the safest cars on the market, and the Mercedes E…

I will tell you why this SUV seems sucky, because I predicted this: shared platform EV = sucky EV with lots of compromises. This is the first shared platform we are seeing, and it weighs 2.4 tones because it is a shared platform, has bad range considering the pack size, has a hump in the floor and no frunk because,…

By "zero evidence" you must mean "a twenty minute long video on YouTube of a stock Model 3 crushing it on a race course in California, doing multiple laps." 

Blah blah, look, the Roadster will use the same battery packs as the Model 3, just more of them, and they are very different from the pack for the Model S. The 3 DOES NOT OVERHEAT AND GO INTO LIMP MODE. Someone already used a Model 3 to beat 120 ICE cars in a track race. Get a new argument, this one is dead. The…

The SpaceX version will have rocket thrusters. Even the regular version will have a top speed of at least 250 MPH. I think it is cute that you don’t realize what people with a deep understanding of physics can achieve when they design a sport car. Have I mentioned the rocket thrusters? They will aid in both thrust and…